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Here we’ll keep you up to date with the latest news and perspectives on topics related to SC and the upcoming conference throughout the year. Check out the tags to explore more posts on the subjects that interest you.
Expert Insights: The State of Biomedical Research and HPC
The Pace of Innovation Life sciences and healthcare research, also referred to as biomedical research, is one of the fastest-paced and most directly impactful fields of science for people today. In the last 10 years, our knowledge of biology, the human body, and when and how diseases arise has increased exponentially. One of the …
Cancer Research and HPC: Advancing Science to Save Lives
While the death rate from cancer has declined significantly over the past two decades, 17 million new cases of cancer were reported, worldwide, in 2018. And 9.5 million people died from the disease.1 Researchers around the globe are working steadily to identify new methods for detecting and treating all forms of cancer. And high-performance computing …
HPC Is Right. HPC Is Now. Five Pressing Questions with Dr. Lin Gan
Dr. Lin Gan is an SC conference success story on repeat. In 2016, he was part of the 12-person team awarded the Gordon Bell Prize for developing a solver used to understand fluid dynamics created specifically for improving weather simulations.1 Their solver could successfully scale the entire Chinese-built Sunway TaihuLight system, the fastest supercomputer in …
SC19 April Need to Know: Precision Health & ‘HPC Is Now’, Job Fair Highlights, Workshops Schedule Coming Soon, Tech Party Reveal, Book Your Hotel May 1
April’s Theme: Precision Medicine Healthcare is becoming increasingly precise in its ability to tackle diseases, especially various manifestations of disease in specific individuals. Sophisticated large-scale analysis supported by HPC is often the backbone of this precision health research, and with that exciting work in mind, we turn our focus for April’s posts to precision …
Parallel Tracks: Advancing a Career While Helping Move the SC Conference Forward
Sally Ellingson Finds Professional and Personal Growth Since she attended her first SC conference as a participant in the Broader Engagement program at SC10 in New Orleans, Sally Ellingson has launched her professional career while also taking on leadership roles with student-focused programs at the conference. Such programs are aimed at helping students both while …
On the Front Lines of the White House AI Initiative
Lynne Parker, Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) for more than two decades. Hers was the first PhD dissertation ever on the topic of multi-robot systems, she is a pioneering researcher in that field, and formed the …
A First-Time SCinet Volunteer’s Experience: Christian Melzer
Meet Christian: A First-Time SCinet Student Volunteer Christian Melzer is a second semester Masters student at Heidelberg University, Germany. He learned about SC through a co-worker at his school; intrigued he filled out the application, and was selected to participate in the SCinet program. His school offered him full travel support, which enabled him to …
Student Cluster Competition Success Story: Meiru Hao
Meiru Hao Shines Like a ‘Supernova’ During the SC18 Student Cluster Competition As a member of Team Supernova, Meiru Hao, a fourth-year student from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, helped her team shine—even when they were faced with failing servers during the SC18 Student Cluster Competition. Despite the drama, the team came in second …
Complementary Conferences: SC19 and SIGGRAPH 2019
A discussion facilitated by Michela Taufer, PhD, General Chair, SC19 On the surface, two highly-popular computing industry conferences – SC and SIGGRAPH – would appear to have little in common. The former draws stakeholders throughout the technical computing community who are involved in high-performance computing (HPC), all driven by an urgent need to provide …
Student Volunteer Success Story: Rocío Carratalá-Sáez
Meet Rocío: A First-Time Student Volunteer Rocío Carratalá-Sáez is a third-year student pursuing a PhD in computer science, majoring in HPC and H-Matrices algorithms, at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. As a colleague had raised her interest in the SC conference, Rocío applied to become a student volunteer and was accepted, making SC18 her first SC. …